Re: CHAT: Tacos et al.

Kou wrote:


>From Tristan responding to someone (lost track of the quotes):
>
>>  > Actually isn't <oe> often also Anglicized as "long A" /ei/ ?
>>
>>Could you provide an example? At the moment, I can think of `moebius' and
>>`Schroedinger'(sp), both of which have /8u/ (~=/ou/)
>
>Cue Wayne Newton <shudder>:
>
>Danke schön, oo oo oo, danke schön /dank@ Sejn/.....
>
>Cue the Andrew Sisters:
>
>Bei mir bist du schön /Sejn/
>Please let me explain (it rhymes, even)

The latter is Yiddish, probably <shudder's> version too.  I think echt
Deutsch _oe_ is Engl. /ow/, unless the spelling of the name has been
Anglicized to Schrader or some such.  "Mueller" is variously [mjul@r] or
[mUl@r].  I once worked for a branch of the Dutch co. _Muller_ and it was
definitely [mUl@r], not correct [myl@r].